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LIGHTNING FREAKS.

LIGHTNING not only burned the house Of
Joseph Wilcox, of Lake Clear, Fla, but
struck his barn and killed all his stock.
JOHN LAMprRT and his dog were killed by
lightning while tending sheep on the anch Of
DR.. Welch, at Greeley, Col.
LIGHTNING struck the powder mill at
Streator, ILL.,, and blew it up promptly,
smashing things for half mile around.
A PITcHFoRK carried over the shoulder Of
William Casselman, Of Gloversville, n. Y,
during thunder storm, drew the lightning
and cost him his life.
WILLIAM Bowen and his sister-in-law,
Miss Eunice Mckenzie, were instantly killed
by lightning at Palestine, Texas, while taking
refuge under large pine tree.
HEAVY rain put out the fire caused by
lightning that struck Thomas Powell's barn
at Rocky Mount n. c., but the lightning had
already killed two horses and an OK.
THE entire family of Meredith Mensell, Of
ming while dining. The family consisted Of
Mr. Mensel, his wife, and four children.
LIGHTNING stunned the stallion Red Jacket,
belonging to James Price, of Pennington,
Ca, and he has been as docile as lamb ever
since. Noone was known to ride him before
LIGHTNING tore out the casing and blinds
of a window of house in Little Ro.k, Ark,
and threw two bird cages upon the floor, but
neither of the birds in the cages was injured.
AN oak standing in cemetery at Mount
Pleasant, Tenn, afforded shelter in a storm
to nine negroes who had just buried friend
Lightning strnck the tree and killed them all.
WHILE Charley Spencer. of Milwaukee,
was fiShing lightning struck him, and tore
the clothes completely from one side of his
body, cutting them as neatly in two as if the
job had been done with knife.
LIGHTNING tore out the whole side of the
widow JoneS's house at South Scion, Ohio,
and revealed the widow with her three chill
children huddled together in the most abject
terror. None of them was injured, how
ever.
WHEN lightning struck the barn of James
Smith. of Marion, Ind, he was standing he
tween his two horses with three pigs nosing
around their feet. At the flash all the ami
mails dropped dead, while Smith was entirely
| unharmed.
LIGHTNING tore n large oak tree on the
premises Of John Brathis, at Cuthbert, Ga,
into kindling wood and sent mule tied to it
| on to its knees. but the mule soon recovered,
kicked a wagon into bits, and was otherwise
very lively.
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THE HAY CROP,

A Serious Shortage and a Predicted
Increase in Prices.
New York livery stable men and others in
terested in the feed business are watching
the hay crop with great deal Of soicitude
The present indications are that there will
be serious shortage in the usual supply for
this year, with consequent high prices pre-
vailing next winter and spring. In addition
to this the quality promises to be decidedly
inferior. A feed merchant said to Tribune
reporter:
Hay is selling now for $40 and s13 ton
according to quality. Unless all signs fail it
will be hard to get at $40 and s25 ton next
spring. In the first place, the drought in May
in the Middle and New England States,
which are the chief source of supply Of the
hay used in this and neighboring city
markets, damaged the crop seriously. Rains
in June somewhat revived it, but they came
too late to give us the full crop. Now on
top Of the drought comes the terrific storms,
done incalculable damage. The hay from
thousands of acres Of bottom land was caught
in the cock. The farmers had not time to
put it in the stack. Before every storm there
have been unusually fierce winds, which blew
the loose cocks down or just opened them
wide enough to take water. Then the floods
descended and the hay was soon soaked. In
most lowlands, in addition, the water stood for
hours from several inches toa foot in depth.
Why, travellers on the railroads with whom
have talked all tell the same stories of seeing
flooded bottom hay fields with quantities Of
hay floating about in the water. It is the
same story from the hay fields Of Maine and
New Hampshire to the great agricultural
valleys Of Pennsylvania and New York
Statao
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The Electrical World presents some re-
markable figures as to the use of the tele-
phone in four European countries-Bel-
gium, Holland, Italy, and Russia. The
tables give list of the exchange sub
scribers in each country. The total Of
such is, allowing for a few untabulated
exchanges, about 5000. In other words,
in these countries, with total popula
ton of 1876, 900, 900, there a:e only IS, OO(
subscribers, all told, or one in every 7, 15S
while in the United States there are 147,
900 subscribers in population of so,
600, 900, or one in every $40. The dis
parity is remarkable. There are as man!
telephone subscribers in New York ant
Brooklyn as in all Italy with its twenty
eight millions of people; as many in Bos
ton as in Holland with its four millions
more in Chicago than in all the domin
ions of the Gear.
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LATER NEWS.

GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS was reelected
President of the National Civil Service Re
form League at its annual meeting in New
port, R. l.
MRS. CLEVELAND has been spending few
days at Marion, Mass, where she has been
guest of General Greely.
A FIRE in Evansville, Ind, destroyed two
lumber yards containing 100000 feet Of
lumber, fifteen cars of grain, large ware
house, sawmill, stables and two dwellings.
The loss is s250,0OO.
SIX workmen were killed and one injured
by the falling Of wall at theruins off burned
elevator in Minnesota
THE Secretary Of the Treasury has issued
a circular stating that ''the interest due Sep
tember and December l, 1887, on the ~
per cent bonds Of the United States, October
/, 1887, and January 1, 1888, on the per
cent. bonds, and January l, 1888, on the
bonds issued in aid of Pacific railroads, will
be prepaid on and after August Is, 1887, with
a rebate at the rate Of Q per centum per
annum on the amounts prepaid" Proposals
are also invited for the sale to the Govern
ment of United States ~ per cent. bonds OF
1891, acts of July "A, 1870, and January 20,
1871. This action has been taken to relieve
the expected stringency in the money market
by reducing the Treasury's heavy surplus.
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VERY OLD PEOPLE.

WILLIAM WILLIAMSON died recently at
Bethel, Me-, aged lD1 years.
WHEN John Downey died recently in East
Toledo, Ohio, he was l03 years of age
AT New York City Police Court woman
was recently broughtup for drunkenness who
is 102 years of age.
MRS. NOAH RABY, of Plainield, N. j.,
still supports herself by work, although she is
believed to be l15 years of age.
PROBABLY the oldest man in the State OF
Tennessee is Henry Cleggy, of Meigs county,
who is lO5 years OF age, and still in the best
of health.
ONE of the most interesting ladies of Cam
bridge, Mass, is Mrs. Charles Bradford, who
is 81 years old. She is great lover OF music
and performs beautifully on the piano.
JOHN J. WHIPPLE, of Rockland. Mo-, is 100
wears old, and attributes his good health and
great longevity to always eating and drink
ing according to inclination.
AUNT RACHEL RUTHERFORD, of Summit,
Mo-, is ninety-one years of age, and has NIFTY
seven grandchildren and l26 great-grand,,
children She is an inveterate smoker, and
a wreathe of smoke always encircles her
head.
MRS. BETSY FAIRFIELD, of Haydenville,
Mass, is 102 years of age, her mother lived
to be ninety-eight, sister nlnety.two,
brother eighty and another brother
living is eighty-seven. She was regular
correspondent with friends of her early days
until she was ninety-fve.
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An eminent English statesman, Mr..
Giden, has compiled tables which show
in part the enormous sums sent back to
the United Kingdom to the relatives and
friends of emigrants who have gained
homes in the United States. From 1s4S
to 1885, both years inclusive, there
was forwarded from America through
certain banks and mercantile houses
$155, O92, 935. a large part of which
eventually passed into the pockets of
Irish landlords. In the last six years
covered by the tables the contributions
were realty increased, the annual average
being s7,427,474. Of course the state
ment is incomplete, for certain bankers
declined to furnish the required lnforma-
tion, and a great deal of money has
reached Ireland from America without
going through the hands of bankers.
The average annual amount RENTED
from Australian colonies since 80
been only $2s9. 1000.
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.

ELwooD COOPER is the largest olive raiser
in the United States. His olive farm in
Southern California comprises 600 acres.
KING HUMBERT, of Italy, isan exceedingly
small eater on all occasions, and, as to drink,
his guests may have it in plenty, but his ia
vorite tipple is water.
HERR KRUPP's greatest achievement in
on-making was the 125-ton gun he
turned out for Italy. His works average
1,O00 tons Of steel day.
QUEEN VICTORIA wore glasses in public for
the first time last week. The lenses were no
larger than quarter-dollar piece, and set in
plain bit Of tortoise shell.
MRS. GRANT is at Long Branch. She is
expecting a visit from her daughter, Mrs
Sartoris, this month. Mrs. Sartoris is now
at Southampton. England, at the home Of
her husbands father.
SITTING BULL is living life Of laziness at
Standing Rock agency. Work he considers
degrading, and believes that his victory over
Custer has entitled him to an existence OF
ease and Incidence.
M DE LEssEPs is of the opinion that only
$4,000 900 will be required to complete the
Panama Canal If he can raise two-thlrds OF
the sum in France. he believes the remainder
will come from American sources.
F. A. SAWYER, who was once a United
States Senator from South Carolina, is now
a clerk in the Quartermaster Generals office,
Washington, on salary of 81, 400 year. He
at one time held the position of Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury.
MRS. BELvA A. LOCKWOOD, the Wash
ington lawyer, retains her position as Chief
of the Female Suffragist's movement She
is at Hemlock Lake, N. Y, for few days
discussing the woman question and the moral
and political aspect of the temperance move
ment.
DANIEL R. WOLFF, Of Chambersburg,
Penn, LAYS claim to being the first COM
mercial traveller or drummer" in the United
States. He went ''on the road" in 1874 for
the dry goods and notion house of Dunton,
Gemmili & Co., of Philadelphia Until 1S49
he Travelled without samples.
MRS. GLADSTONE is described as very
amiable, gracious looking lady, with iron
gray hair, thick and abundant, brushed down
over her ears. She has good color, regular
features, and clear blue-gray eyes, in which
any one may read her sincere admiration for
her husband if she is watching him on any
public occasion or conversing about him In
private,
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THE LABOR WORLD.

DURING the past six months 36l saw ana
planning mills have been started in the Soutn,
which will work up 500, 600, 900 feet OF lums
ber. The increase Is going on.
The European immigration agencies are
translating descriptions Of the conditions on
American mechanics, laborers ana farmers
for the benefit Of those they want to bring 70
this side.
BUILDERS Of late years have been giving up
lath and plastered ceilings in large buildings
as well as light floor timbers for heavy tim
bers be an and thick. closely laid three-inch floors.
The decreased Insurance makes it pay.
TIE labor holiday inaugurated by the
New York Central Labor Union will be much
more generally observed this year than it was
last, and especially in the Western States,
where there appears to be more progressive
spirit
SIXTEEN new glass factories will start up
In September, having 208 pots, OF Whlcn lUV'
are for window glass, twenty for flint, eighY
for table ware, and six for green glass. tW
likely that several Of the window glass fac.
tories in New Jersey will remain idle ne3t-
year.
A MOVEMENT has been quietly projected In
labor circles in Boston, Independently OF tne,
KNIGHTS of Labor, for the organization OF
women and girls into trades unions similar eor
the existing ogaIlization Of trades among
men who have not affiliated with the knights.
THE CARPENTERS strike in Chicago IS NOT
general, only those who have been WORKING
more than eight hours for less than thirty
five cents an hour, or with non-union men,
being affected. ...zS
The greater portion of the cokers have re-
sumed work in the Connellsviue (Penn.) re-
gion.
THERE are 60, 900 colored Knights Of Labor,
In the United States.
THIRTY-sIx THOUSAND acres OF mineral
land have been purchased near Kansas City,
Mo-, where iron and steel works will be bullt.
THE American Society for the PreVen-
tion of Adulteration of Food, etc, is about 70
issue circular to bakers and confectiopers,
warning them against the use Of certain col
oring materials which are named and de-
clared to be dangerous to health.
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Foreign.

Ten persons were drowned by the capsizing
of two pleasure yachts off Yarmouth, Eng
land.
SIGNoR DEPRET1s, the italian Prime Minis
ter, is dead.
SEVEN men have been arrested at Limerick,
Ireland. for participating in riot of striking
dockmen against imported Waterford labor
ers. Four policemen and many civilians
were injured during the riot.
FIFTY THOUSAND people are starving at
Adana, Asiatic Turkey, on account OF a
drought which has turned usually fertile
region into an absolutely barren country.
THE Liberals (Gladstone's partly have
elected another of their number to the British
House of Commons in an election to NIL va
cancy, and have nude large gains.
CHOLERA is causing from fifteen to twenty
deaths daily in Catania, Italy, and the cpl
demic is spreading in the provinces. In the
city of Peshawur, India, there were 5Oo
deaths from cholera during July.
MANY houses have been destroyed or badly
damaged in Ecuador by the recent earth
quake.
THE election of George Otto Trevelyan to
the British House of Commons from Glasgow
by an increased Liberal majority is another
great Gladstone triumph.
FROM January to June of this year there
were 10, 236 deaths from cholera in Chilli.
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Under the Constitution adopted by
Holland in 1914 women were allowed to
vote, the requisite qualifications, howS
ever, being that they should pay taxes on
property and be able to read and write;
but few of them have cared to exercise
their privilege. Now that peril threatens
the nation in the extinction of the royal
house of Orange by the death of the
present king, the women have become
aroused, and regularly attend the polls,
and by their presence and their ballots
uphold the leaders who are arranging to
defend their country. But more is to
come. Of the 1900 persons just en-
franchised great numbers are women
and so Holland, which has led the world
in many things, will lead it again in
fhis
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-08-17
A REMARKABLE JULY.
The Past Month One of the Hottest
known in This Country.

The Fast Month One Oh the IhOtCeS1
Known in This Country.
The month of July, 1887, will be known in
many parts of the United States as the hot
test July ever experienced. In New York
city and vicinity the heat was terrific almost
without cessation during the entire month.
In an article reviewing the past months heat,
the New York Times says:
The July which has just ended was in some
points the most remarkable Of the sixteen
July months since 1872. Its high humidity
was one Of these points. Its number OF days
when the temperature ran and stayed above ~
degrees was another Distinguishing feet.
There were 1s of these scorchers as
against 16 in 1876, Is in 1872, IA in 1882, 13
in 1879, 70 in 1885, 10 in 1878, 9 in 1873, 8
in 1883, 6 in 1886, 5 in 1874, in 1877 and 1884,
2 in 1875 and 1880, and 1 in 1881. There
were few days last month when the az
ternoon temperature was at any comfort al
lowing point. Here are the registrations for
the thirty-one days, taken each day at $3.50 P.
NJ: IS, 95, 95, 92, n, 50, 81, SO, 81, "a,
81. 90. &c, 90, SO, 80, 80, 90, 7s. SS, Is, 81, Is,
So. 90, 81, 80, 93, 90, SO, SO degrees.
The figures which have just been presented
are the records of the heat as it has been ex-
perienced by the millions Of New York,
Brooklyn, Jersey City, Newark, and the sur
rounding towns. They are from obser-
vations on the street where men
move and stand, and are affected
by reflected sun rays. But even
the half dozen official weather men who WORK
on the lofty roof Of the Equitable Building,
where there is little influence from reflected
sunbeams and where play the cheerful breeSes
of bay and river, even those cool observers
conceded that this July had been hotter than
the average.
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PLEURO-PNEUMONIA.
The Efforts to Suppress the Disease
in Some States.

The Efforts to Suppress the Disease
in Some States.
The Chief of the Bureau of Animal Indus
try has just made apreliminary report to the
Commissioner Of Agriculture in reference to
the progress Of the work for the suppression
of pleuro- pneumonia for the six months
ended June 30, 1887.
Pennsylvania is the only State beloved to
be infected with pluero-pneumonia, the
authorities Of which have declined both to
accept the new rules and regulations or to
give the National inspectors any recognition
in this work.
The work of inspection in New Jersey by
the Bureau has only recently begun Four
hundred and fifty-three herds containing
3,S15 animals have been inspected. Twenty
herds have been found infected, containing 2S4
head, Of which thirty-tive were reported dis
eased. Twenty eight animals were slaugh-
been affected with pleuro-pneumonia.
In New York ~ herds, containing =, ,20l an
imals, were inspected OF these As herds were
infected and contained 937 animals, Of which
I2j were reported diseased. The number
slaughtered was III, of which Is showed
the LESSONS of pleuro-pneumonia. In New
York the following counties are now IN
quarantine: Westchester, New York, Rich
mond, Kings, Queens and Suffolk.
The total number Of herds inspected during
the six months is 5, 351, containing 45, ,094 ami
mails; 29S herds and 11,6ss animals have
been placed in quarantine, among which
were found a0i diseased animals. Post
mortem examinations were made on the car
cases of 1851 animals and showed that ], ,l04
OF these have been affected with pleuro-pne
mOnia-
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CUT OFF BY FLAMES.
Fatal Results Of a Tenement FIRE
in Chicago.

Fatal Results Of a Tenement FIRE
in Chicago.
Two people, mother and child, were Killed.
four children were fatally injured, and nVe
or six other persons were badly hurt Ill a hre
at Chicago early the other morning. About
2:25 o'clock Officer O'Conner saw flames COM
Ing out of the basement He ran to the near
est firebox, turned in an alarm, ana liieh
hastened back to arouse the inmates. By TINS
time the flames had increased with fearful
rapidity, and before the arrival OF thY hrse
engine the front stairways were enveloped,
thus cutting off all means of escape tor the
three families occupying the front portion or
the building.
The following were killed: Adele Trudeau,
aged thirty-five years; Mary Trudeau, aged
two years.
These were fatally injured: Joseph Trudeau,
aged ten years: Della Trudeau, aged eleven
years; Nelson Trudeau, ,Jr. aged twelve years
Eliza Trudeau, aged fifteen years; Mrs. Bon-
neau.
The following were injured severely but
not fatally: Nelson Trudeau, Philip Bonneau,
Eliza Blake, Annie Brew, and Captain Cowan,
of Truck s.
The fire started in Essen's bakeshop, in the
basement. His assistant, Charles Ansbacher,
fell asleep. and a pot Of grease, which was
boiling on the stove, oYerhowed and set fire
to the building.
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A careful estimate has been made by
officials connected with State Attorney
Grinnell's Office in Chicago as to the
amount of money stolen by the Cook
county thieves in the two years from Sep
tember 1884, to September, 1886. Not
less than $3.50, 900 was stolen in 1SS4-'s5,
and fully $500, 900 in 1sse-'S7. The
total is estimated at $1,000, 900 for the
two years. The tax levy for county pur-
poses for the same period was 1850,
900 $1.2OO,OOo for 1sst-'s5 and
$1,000, 900 for 1856. The stealing,
according to the estimate, amount to
forty per cent. of the levy in both years.
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Washington.

FOR the first time in the history Of the
Regular Army details will be made this
year from the various regimental posts Of
companies to attend Grand Army reunions
and the various militia encampments in the
several States.
THE Treasury surplus has been increasing
very heavily OF late.
THE public debt was reduced a 81, ,894 SO
during July. The total debt, principal and
interest, now stands at S1,GSl, ,426, l29. AZ.
Deducting available cash items s26l, lag, :
6U3, and net cash in the Treasury, 81, ,6sS ,54,
the net Indebtedness is 1,274, $50, s42. l9.
DURING July the total receipts of the Uni
ted States Treasury were s3o, ,S14, ,s72, against
s29, G971 in the same time last year. and
the expenditures were s35, 136, ,924, against
$29, ,403, OIL in July, 1886.
THE Pension Office has just allowed the
claim of Mrs. Mary Casey, widow of sol
der of the Revolution who died in 1S45.
Mrs. Casey's application for a pension was
filed ten years ago, and is probably, the last
Revolutionary War pension-claim that will
ever be presented at the Pension Office.
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The Shoe and Leather Reporter says
that the strikes in the shoe trade during
the last year have cost in wages from
$4,000, 900 to $6,OOO,O00. Nearly half
this sum is said to have been lost in the
five months strike in Worcester county,
Mass. The Wilmington strike OF moroc-
co workers lasted seven months and cost
1926, 900. The strikes at Salem and
Peabody, Mass, entail a loss of So, oOO,-
900 in wages. Lesser strikes bring up
the total.
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A dangerous counterfeit of the silver
dollar occasionally passed is made OF
ground glass combined with tin, lead
and other metals. Experienced bank
te?lers say they cannot easily detect this
counterfeit. These glass dollars are brit
tie. If held in the palm of the hand and
raped vigorously with knife-handle,
the dollsr is easily split. They have the
metallic ring Of genuine dollar, are of
the correct size and nearly of the exact
weight.